DODD 5110.10(D)
DEFENSE POW/MIA ACCOUNTING AGENCY (DPAA)
| Organization: | DODD |
| Publication Date: | 13 January 2017 |
| Status: | active |
| Page Count: | 20 |
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Purpose: This issuance:
• Establishes the mission, organization and management, responsibilities and functions, relationships, and authorities of the DPAA.
• Designates the DPAA as a Defense Agency under the authority, direction, and control of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (USD(P)), and consolidates the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, which was a DoD Field Activity; the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command; and select functions of the Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory.
• Implements Sections 1501-1513 of Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.), which require the Secretary of Defense to designate a single organization within the Department for DoD matters relating to the system for accounting for missing persons.
APPLICABILITY. This issuance applies to OSD, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD (referred to collectively in this issuance as the "DoD Components").
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